Brass socketed head of an ecclesiastical standard with elaborate openwork design. [MJD 27/11/2009]

Collection type: Object
Description: Brass socketed head of an ecclesiastical standard with elaborate openwork design. [MJD 27/11/2009]
Long description: Brass socketed head of an ecclesiastical standard with elaborate openwork design. The standard is an elaborate crucifix with cut out scroll pattern and geometric design. The standard has a conical base soldered onto a flat 2-3 mm thick plane. [MJD 27/11/2009]
Geographical reference: Ethiopia
Africa > Eastern Africa > Ethiopia
Person: Field collector Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger; PRM source Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1934-1935
Date collected: ?1909-1914
Acquisition information: Donated: 1945
Materials and processes: Material Brass Metal, Process Forged (Metal), Process Openwork, Process Soldered, Process Etched
Dimensions: Depth: max 56 mm, Length: max 447 mm, Width: max 312 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1945.9.60
Research and responses: For a brief account of the collections donated to the PRM by Wilfred Thiesiger, see 'An Incidental Collection: Objects Donated by Wilfred Thesiger to the Pitt Rivers Museum', by Jeremy Coote, in Wilfred Thesiger in Africa, edited by Christopher Morton and Philip N. Grover (London: Harper Press, 2010), pp. 116-26. [JC 21 12 2010]

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